Gifted Students with Attention Deficits: Fact and/or Fiction? Or, Can We See the Forest for the Trees?

Gifted Child Quarterly - Tập 42 Số 2 - Trang 96-104 - 1998
Susan M. Baum1, F. Richard Olenchak2, Steven V. Owen3
1College of New Rochelle
2University of Alabama
3University of Conneetieut

Tóm tắt

According to Gordon (1990), far too many high ability students arc referred for problems with impulsivity, hyperactivity, and sustaining attention. Several important issues, rarely discussed in the literature on attention deficits, offer alternative hypotheses for the increasing incidence of hyperactivity and attention problems of gifted youngsters. These include theories on emotional development and excitability of gifted students (Dabrowski, 1938; Piechowski & Colangelo, 1984), evidence of unchallenging curricula for high ability students (Reif, 1993), implications of the multiple intelligences paradigm (Gardner, 1983), and adult reaction to students' extreme precocity (Rimm, 1994). These issues are examined in light of Barkley's theory of inhibition as it relates to the manifestation of ADHD. The issues represent environmental conditions that may cause or influence ADHD-like behaviors in high ability students. Diagnostie and intervention strategies are suggested to counteract environmental contributors to the problem.

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